Today I present the two groups with largest lowsec activity, starting with Shadow Cartel:

Below you can see the corps of the alliance with more than 100B of its activity:

Rank

Corp

B Damage done

B Damage taken

ISK ratio

1

Immortalis Inc.

1733

364

83

2

Beyond Divinity Inc

417

102

80

3

Sonnenlegion

324

71

82

4

Yoyodyne corporation

249

99

72

5

V.O.I.D.

279

37

88

6

The Bastards

134

48

74

7

The Generic Pirate Corporation

125

25

84

8

Doughboys

114

20

85

9

Kicked.

65

49

57

10

Collapsed Out

89

20

82

-

Sum of small ones

67

26

72

-

Total

3595

860

81

Below you can see what alliances contributed more than 100B to the killboard of the analyzed one.

Rank

Alliance

B Damage done

B Damage taken

ISK ratio

1

Fidelas Constans

109

7

94

2

Nulli Legio

107

0

100

-

#NPC Corporations

515

19

96

-

Sum of small ones

2864

834

77

-

Total

3595

860

81

As you can see, they didn't have big wars with big enemies, but fought with many-many small ones.

The inflation factor of this alliance is: 146%.
Below you can see which alliances helped it the most by shooting the same target. Please note that damage is capped by own damage, so if the analyzed alliance did 1B damage, X did 2B, Y did 8B, then X get 0.2B help, Y get 0.8B, as their help provided 1B de-inflated damage.

This is the space distribution of the alliance, sorted by activity (losses+damage). Them living in lowsec is quite obvious:

Rank

Space

B Damage done

B Damage taken

ISK ratio

1

Low_Metropolis

724

222

77

2

Low_Essence

407

69

85

3

Low_The Bleak Lands

193

81

71

4

Low_The Citadel

245

22

92

5

Low_Sinq Laison

212

34

86

6

HighSinq Laison

211

32

87

7

Low_Derelik

194

34

85

8

Low_Domain

198

27

88

9

Low_Placid

181

10

95

10

HighThe Citadel

147

17

89

11

Low_Verge Vendor

107

37

74

12

Low_Heimatar

110

31

78

-

Sum of small ones

665

243

73

-

Total

3595

860

81

This is the ship value distribution of the alliance. The total population has equal damage done and taken in all 6 groups. Please note that "Ships killed" is also de-inflated, if the alliance did 1% damage to a ship, they get 0.01 kill:

Ship value groups

Ships killed

B Damage done

Ships lost

B Damage taken

0-64M

31316

400

11649

132

65-158M

3936

384

1071

105

159-317M

2286

493

496

110

318-877M

918

470

247

126

878-2501M

396

584

144

211

2502M+

152

1264

44

176

Total

39002

3595

13651

860

This is the battle size distribution of the alliance. The total population has equal damage done and taken in all 6 groups.
% of total (4455B ISK) done+taken .........10%...................................20%...............
..... --------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+-----------------
Solo. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2-3.. ------------------------------------------------
4-5.. --------------------------
6-10. --------------------------------------------
11-25 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
26+.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
..... --------------------------------------+-------------------------------------+-----------------

So, Shadow Cartel had very high ISK ratio against lots of small enemies, which is more or less the definition of ganking. They killed lot of valuable ships, flew in EUTZ and didn't show any trend of growing or shrinking. Let's see SCUM.:

Below you can see the corps of the alliance with more than 100B of its activity:

Rank

Corp

B Damage done

B Damage taken

ISK ratio

1

Ministry of Destruction

507

143

78

2

Basgerin Pirate

286

126

69

3

Knysna Grim Reapers

272

136

67

4

Fallen Supremacy

96

57

63

-

Sum of small ones

622

284

69

-

Total

1782

747

70

Below you can see what alliances contributed more than 100B to the killboard of the analyzed one.

Rank

Alliance

B Damage done

B Damage taken

ISK ratio

-

#NPC Corporations

259

25

91

-

Sum of small ones

1523

721

68

-

Total

1782

747

70

The inflation factor of this alliance is: 136%. No significant helpers were found.

This is the space distribution of the alliance, sorted by activity (losses+damage):

Rank

Space

B Damage done

B Damage taken

ISK ratio

1

Low_Lonetrek

450

167

73

2

Low_Black Rise

408

161

72

3

Low_Placid

356

128

74

4

Low_Everyshore

137

41

77

5

Low_Essence

110

45

71

6

Low_The Citadel

87

35

72

-

Sum of small ones

234

171

58

-

Total

1782

747

70

This is the ship value distribution of the alliance. The total population has equal damage done and taken in all 6 groups. Please note that "Ships killed" is also de-inflated, if the alliance did 1% damage to a ship, they get 0.01 kill:

Ship value groups

Ships killed

B Damage done

Ships lost

B Damage taken

0-64M

31916

353

4917

99

65-158M

3524

340

1305

128

159-317M

1375

298

605

133

318-877M

663

344

273

140

878-2501M

243

332

130

180

2502M+

31

115

20

67

Total

37754

1782

7250

747

This is the battle size distribution of the alliance. The total population has equal damage done and taken in all 6 groups.
% of total (2529B ISK) done+taken ....10%...............................20%........................
..... ---------------------------------+---------------------------------+--------------------------
Solo. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2-3.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
4-5.. --------------------------------------------------------
6-10. -------------------------------------------------------------------
11-25 ----------------------------------
26+.. ------------
..... ---------------------------------+---------------------------------+--------------------------

No big enemies, lowsec and high ISK ratio is the same. However they rather flew solo and small gang and whenever got into a bigger engagement, they lost. As close to the "handful of pirates, hitting and running" cliche as possible.